The Power of Being 'Grokked'
It is unrealistic to expect compassion from others when we are abandoning ourselves. If you want to experience the power of being "grokked" by others, you first need to "grok" yourself!
It is unrealistic to expect compassion from others when we are abandoning ourselves. If you want to experience the power of being "grokked" by others, you first need to "grok" yourself!
Karen Kimsey-House | Posted 04.30.2012
Throw your heart out in the name of your life purpose, even when you don't know what will happen.
David Wilson | Posted 05.09.2012
In you is the future. In you there is hope. You are our child. Whether we live together or apart, our hearts and our prayers go with you each and every day.
Holly Sidell | Posted 04.15.2012
It is not until we can separate the person from the memory that we will cease being haunted.
Nicki Richesin | Posted 04.15.2012
If I could offer words of advice to my brokenhearted, 16-year-old self, it would be just this: Trust with your whole heart and don't hold yourself back from life even if all hell breaks loose and take the flying leap, come what may.
Donna Jean Freberg | Posted 04.10.2012
I think it was the Starbuck's cup with hearts swirling around on it that put me over the edge. You see I've been incredibly loved in my life, in every...
Margaret Paul, Ph.D. | Posted 04.09.2012
Why do we blame ourselves and others? What is the payoff?
Agi Smith | Posted 04.02.2012
My husband recently ended an affair, which I have known about for the past five months. I feel so shattered and confused. How can I ever trust him again?
Margaret Paul, Ph.D. | Posted 03.11.2012
Relationships are fertile ground for learning about ourselves -- about our unloving behavior that creates the very disconnection we don't want, and about the loving behavior that brings aliveness, joy and passion to our relationship.
Amy Chan | Posted 02.11.2012
I've realized that all I can do is be a source of love myself, to embrace the love around me, cherish it and share it with others. That is my source of joy.
Agi Smith | Posted 01.30.2012
All children need time to adjust to anything new in their lives. As a mother your only mistake was not recognizing that you needed to slow the relationship down so you could get to know this man better and not throw your children into the vortex you co-created.
Amy Chan | Posted 01.16.2012
You'd think one would get better at breakups after going through a few. In all honesty, it doesn't get easier.
Toni Nagy | Posted 08.14.2011
Falling in love is like a drug. But what about when you break up? Your once pleasant addiction transforms you into a joyless, despondent junkie faster then you can say methamphetamine.
Mary Darling Montero, LCSW | Posted 06.11.2011
You know the scene: You've just been through a breakup or divorce. You walk into your house and the first thing you see are your ex's shoes by the doo...
Mary Darling Montero, LCSW | Posted 11.17.2011
Strengths hide in even the most difficult days -- days when we can't even identify having felt a little less down. At the end of such a day, the question to ask is this: How did you get through the day?
Agi Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
am conducting a series of interviews about people who have or are going through divorce.
Nikole Beckwith | Posted 05.25.2011
For Valentines Day, I will post a new heart comic daily between now and the 14th. Enjoy.
Nikole Beckwith | Posted 05.25.2011
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Danielle Berrin | Posted 05.25.2011
Ephron is a case in point for the Jewish imperative of turning pain into possibility.
Judge Michele F. Lowrance | Posted 11.17.2011
Breakups take a toll on us not just because of the loss of the person but because they rob our reserve of trust and faith in love. The ability to bounce back seems to loose its elasticity which each successive loss.
Margaret Ruth | Posted 11.17.2011
Acting as if your former significant other won't be back means finding new fun things to do and new fun people to do those with.
Delia Lloyd | Posted 11.17.2011
Breaking up is hard to do. It was as true then as it is now, whether you're in your teens or in your forties. So how do you actually move on after a broken heart?
Susan Piver | Posted 11.17.2011
With a broken heart, you see both how vast your longing for love is, and how impossible it is to make love safe. So what do you do with these two truths? This is your path.
Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent | Posted 11.17.2011
Some men have a hard time dealing with their insecurities because they communicate them less frequently, and many would rather sabotage something great than take a good hard look in the mirror.
W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 11.17.2011
Narrative is a connective tissue made of memories and events, facts and fantasy, and a set of beliefs, which we use to form identity.
Margaret Paul, Ph.D. | Posted 05.09.2012